Even when you screw up. Even when you have to read the documentation again. Even when it doesn’t make sense. Even when you are sore and beat down. Even when you aren’t sure where to start next. Keep. Showing. Up.
I’ve held off on adding new categories to my posts for a while now as I generally think what you do comes down to behaviors of work that you do, but I know I’ve been writing about different areas of work that I’d like to bring more to the forefront and I’m also looking to change some of the content that I’ll be writing about. You’ll start seeing new categories such as Team (for remote,…
The event to get organized is the most exciting event because you’re not really doing anything, you’re organizing the things that will happen. It’s the plan for the plan with a splash of optimism and hope because everything is possible. But like any party, it’s the after-party that’s the big show, and that’s when it gets interesting because that’s when you start to look at how to implement what you came up with in the…
If you’re not on a team, it’s all you, there is no “we”, it’s just you, and that’s fine. But when you’re on a team, no matter what your role, you’re on a team, and that means only the team can and will ever will.
I wrote this article on Medium a while back called the “Software Manager Minimum”. At the time, I was writing about the bare minimum you need to be doing as a manager and leader on a software team in order to keep your team moving forward. In this I boiled it down to three questions you should always be asking yourself on a daily basis; What’s the Pulse of the team? How are we doing? …